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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 50 through.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 48, a new campaign got underway, with __________ in command.
(a) Grant.
(b) Sherman.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Sheridan.

2. Was the request granted?
(a) Yes, but not until many hours later.
(b) Yes, right away.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, but not until several days later.

3. Grant noted after the surrender of Vicksburg that the men taken prisoner did what regarding the Union Army?
(a) They begged them to let them go free.
(b) They ignored them.
(c) They talked and mingled with them.
(d) They teased and taunted them.

4. The fighting continued and Grant described in detail the movements of the men and the ________-hour battle at Champion's Hill.
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. As Grant made the journey, he encountered a Union loyalist, Mr. ___________, who said there were Confederates in the area and that a neighbor, a Southern sympathizer, was certain to report Grant's presence.
(a) De Long.
(b) De Rosa.
(c) De Loche.
(d) De Vane.

Short Answer Questions

1. On another occasion, Grant saw a man drawing water from a tree that had fallen in the river and questioned him before discovering what?

2. Each man carried ________ days' supply of food in addition to what was being hauled. As a wagon was emptied, it returned to a base camp where it was again filled with the same load and returned to the army camps.

3. Grant communicated with Lee after a particular stage of the battle, asking that there be a temporary truce. Why?

4. In Chapter 21, Grant described the assault and capture of ____________.

5. In Chapter 18, Grant left Galena as commander of the _______ Regiment.

(see the answer key)

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